Oct. 11 - to Sicamous on the bottomland farms. 9:15 a.m. - Over a "hill", 1700 ft. alt., at Nettle-Hill ; cuts off a curve in Shuswap lake, which has 600 miles of coast line; Salmon Arm = one division - a drowned" valley-system. Here much more rainfall: woods of Douglas spruce, red cedar, mixed everywhere with open now brilliantly yellow, all over the mountain slopes. Just saw, in alfalfa field, 30+ Brewer Blackbirds, 10+ crows; at stations, 12+ English Sparrows. 10:00 - At Salmon Arm, two Magpies on lake-side pasture land. Duck-bills out in shallow water, and ducks and geese in sight on the water. Then: Golden Eagle (1) in flight above forest edge; young Common Loon and Western Gull, water; and raft of ducks far out. 11:40 - At Enderby, on branch line south for Sicamous to Vernon. RR trames along level route between mountains; valley more or less broad, occupied by series of lakes and intervening tracts of farmland evidently reclaimed from heavily timbered bottomlands. Here is Shuswap River, flowing north to last lake passed - Fraser River drainage. Uncut timber in lowlands: Douglas spruce predominant, some yellow pines, hemlock, much birch; along edge of mine, aspen, cottonwood, willows, with heavy undergrowth.